Health & Medicine is proud to announce our 2025 Award Winners—visionary leaders and community advocates who exemplify our mission to build power and momentum for social justice and health equity in Illinois. Help us honor these outstanding public health champions at the 2025 Health &...
On May 17, 2025, Health & Medicine Policy Research Group partnered with seventeen organizations across Chicago to host the Solidarity Summit for a People’s Agenda. This cross-community gathering brought together attendees with diverse experiences and perspectives for a day of critical...
Nominations are now open for our 2025 Health & Medicine Awards! Join us in honoring the public health heroes in our community who dedicate their lives to enhancing the health and well-being of others. We’re looking for individuals or organizations that embody Health & Medicine’s commitment...
For the past several years, the Chicago Area Schweitzer Fellows Program has been able to offer seed grants to Fellows for Life interested in beginning, sustaining, or building on innovative community projects that help underserved Chicago communities. Each year, the Chicago Area Schweitzer Fellows...
Health & Medicine Policy Research Group is proud to celebrate the 2024-25 graduates of the Chicago Area Schweitzer Fellowship! These incredible students spent the past year implementing service projects that addressed the social determinants of health in partnership with underserved...
Expanding Birth Equity in Illinois: Health & Medicine Deepens Its Commitment to Reproductive Justice
Health & Medicine Policy Research Group has led the movement to increase access to high-quality, community-based birthing options in Illinois for almost four decades. Today, our work to address the state’s maternal health disparities continues through two complementary initiatives: the...
Health & Medicine Policy Research Group seeks a skilled Instructional Designer to create engaging and accessible visualizations for 19 public health career pathways. This project will support our Health Career Pathways Resource (CPR), a tool designed to increase awareness and access to health...
A quiet revolution is taking place in the heart of Chicago, where the pandemic’s effects still echo through communities on the South and West sides. Among the cohort of graduates from Chicago Volunteer Doulas’ 100 Doulas Rising program, a new battalion of birth workers is stepping...
Across the nation, states are beginning to develop multisector plans for aging to improve service coordination across state agencies and sectors to address the major demographic shifts that are happening as our society ages. Illinois Aging Together, which has rallied 188 organizational supporters,...
ILLINOIS (August 14, 2024) — Illinois Aging Together, a campaign for aging equity led by Health & Medicine Policy Research Group, celebrates Illinois Governor Pritzker’s executive order to establish a planning commission for a multi-sector plan for aging. Across the nation, states are...
Health & Medicine is pleased to announce our 2024 award winners! These Chicago-area leaders exemplify the Health & Medicine mission to build power and momentum for social justice and health equity in Illinois. Help us celebrate the public health champions in our community! Join us for the...
Interested in joining Illinois Aging Together, a statewide movement for aging equity? Join Ali Medina, Health and Aging Organizer, on Monday, June 24 from 1 – 1:30 p.m. for an overview of the campaign and ways to get involved. Register here.